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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Widely used in-process key-value store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.37
Rank	#265	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	2.87
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#349	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/overview/index.html

swaydb.io

Technical documentation

bbs.kingbase.com.cn/chess_wenku-index.html

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1999

1994

2018

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Business license. Various sales modes: for example, sales by set, sales by CPU quantity,...
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